If what you're describing as "playing with the center tilt" is actually the "ROTATE" setting, that's not a tilt feature. All it does is make an image spin. Changing the rotation center doesn't make it tilt either.

Tilt-Vertical, Tilt-Horizontal, and Rotation are all a form of the same thing: a circular motion around a different axis. Rotation is not called 'tilt-Center' because it was the first form of rotation we were given and I doubt Photodex was ever contemplating any other rotation type motion.

The function "Rotation" rotates the layer around what can be called a Z-Axis -- an imaginary line which extends into and out of the screen perpendicular to the plane of the screen.

The function "Tilt-Horizontal" rotates the layer around what can be called the Y-Axis -- an imaginary line which extends up and down the screen, perpendicular to the horizontal plane and to the Z-axis plane

The function "Tilt-Vertical" rotates the layer around what can be called the X-Axis -- an imaginary line which extends to the screens' left and right, perpendicular to the vertical and to the Y-axis plane.

All of these rotation motions are mutually perpendicular to each other.

Dale

PS I guess I should say that "0" (the origin) in the graphic is the "center of rotation" ... or the location on the axis around which the circular motion occurs.

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In addition to what Dale says, you can move the center of rotation in the image. I thought you could drag it, but seemed to have lost that part of the incantation - you can change the center of rotation in the dialog box at the bottom of the "Effects" page for a slide with 0,0 being the center of the image.

Mikey, did you ever notice that the rotation direction on the X-Axis is 180-deg out from convention? How, they didn't catch that before they released it is kind of a surprise ... and by the time someone mentioned it to them ... it was way too late to do anything about it.